ExerciseMenu.com publishes practical, no-fluff content on exercise and fitness training. If you know your subject and can write clearly, we’d like to hear from you.
What We Cover
We’re a fitness and exercise site — that’s the full scope. Topics we regularly publish include:
- Exercise guides and technique breakdowns
- Workout plans for different goals and experience levels
- Strength training and resistance training content
- Home workout guides
- General fitness guides for beginners and intermediate trainees
If your topic fits within exercise and fitness, there’s likely a place for it here.
What We Don’t Accept
To keep submissions relevant, we don’t publish:
- Pure nutrition or diet articles that have no direct connection to exercise
- Medical condition management content without a fitness angle
- Product reviews, sponsored posts, or anything promotional dressed up as editorial
- Topics outside the fitness and exercise space
If your article touches on nutrition, it needs to be in direct support of a training or exercise topic — not a standalone nutrition piece.
What We Expect From Your Article
Length We ask for a minimum of 1,200 words. For guides, tutorials, or anything instructional, 1,500 to 2,500 words is the range we prefer. That said, length without substance doesn’t help anyone — don’t pad an article to hit a word count.
Structure Use clear H2 and H3 headings to organize your content. Keep paragraphs short. Use bullet points where they genuinely make things easier to read — not as a way to avoid writing proper sentences. Every article should have a clear introduction that sets up what the reader will learn, a well-structured body, and a conclusion that gives the reader something to walk away with.
Tone and audience Write for a general fitness audience in the US and UK. Clear, direct, and practical. Assume your reader is motivated but not an expert. Avoid unnecessary jargon, and if you do use technical terms, explain them briefly. The goal is for someone to finish reading and immediately know what to do.
Originality Your article must be original and unpublished. That means it cannot have appeared on your own blog, another site, a newsletter, or anywhere else online. We run every submission through plagiarism detection tools. Anything flagged gets declined without further review.
AI-assisted writing We don’t have a rule against AI-assisted writing, but the final article needs to be genuinely useful. If it reads like it was generated and lightly edited, it will be declined. The bar is the same regardless of how the article was written — it needs to deliver real value to the reader.
SEO and keyword stuffing Write for the person reading, not for search engines. If it’s obvious that a keyword has been forced into sentences where it doesn’t belong, or that the article was structured around ranking rather than helping, we’ll pass on it.
Links and Self-Promotion
We keep this straightforward:
- You get one dofollow link to your website or portfolio. It goes in your contributor bio — not in the article body.
- No affiliate links, promotional links, or sponsored mentions anywhere in the article.
- Any external links you include within the article must point to credible, authoritative sources. Wikipedia and random blogs don’t count.
- ExerciseMenu.com reserves the right to add, edit, or remove any links at our editorial discretion.
How to Submit?
Send your pitch or completed draft to Info@exercisemenu.com. Include the following:
- A brief summary of the topic and the angle you’re taking
- Your proposed word count
- One or two writing samples or links to published work
- Your draft as a Google Doc with comment access enabled
Response time: We aim to get back to you within 7 to 10 business days. If you haven’t heard anything after that window, one follow-up is fine.
After submission: Accepted articles go through editorial review before publishing. We may suggest edits, and you’ll have a chance to look over any changes before the piece goes live.
Submissions that don’t follow these guidelines won’t receive a reply.